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- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill…
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still…
- When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now…
- It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world…
- The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do…
- I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
- You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it…
- Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There…
- The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle